The New York Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. Tan oem. OFFICE MN. W. CORNEX OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXX Ne. 90 ‘AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, Broadway, near Broome BROADWAY | THEAT Street, —FANcuoN. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York Hotel.—Jraxix Deans. GERMAN STADT THEATRE. 45 and 47 Bowery.— Tux Ragricnen or Panis. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite St. Nicholas Hotel.—Uscan Tux Haty Bioop, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Crows Diamonps, ~ DODWORTH HALL, 806 Breadway.—Paorssson Hanta wit Pxrromm His Minacius—L'Escamareon anp His Farr Singing Biap, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 58 Broadway, opposite the Metropolitan Hotel—in tani Bruioran 2 NTERTAIN- arents, Singing, Dancing ano Buruxsques.—Tae Buack Cook—EnGuisa OPERA WiTH GERMAN ACCENT. KELLY & EONS MI nite the New York ‘fotsl,—! Tucrtes, Burirsquy: Batisr Taourk—Nons. m-Lkon-Mabacasca® ox Pauix PRaNoats. FIFTH AVENUE OPURA HOUSE, Now. 2and 4 West Twenty-fourth’ stree! vin & Cuntsty's Mixereets.— HOPtAN MINSTRELS Li.sds, Buacrsques, &0,—Tux > Bosuxky—Biace Cnoox. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Cowic Vocauisn, Nxcwo Munstaxisy, Buuasaues, Bauer DivER- tisseaxst, 4c.—Tux Rtiver Rats or New Youx. +4 wuITe's COMBINATION TROUPE, at Hall, 472 Broadway—In 4 Vawierr or Licut ENTERTAINMENTS,—Tae FEMALi CLERKS CHARLRE’ Mechante: anv 1 or Was HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Erntorian Mrx- Grevar, Bautans ano Busissqven—Tus Brack Maw oF Agar. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Rroidway.— Heap axp Ricut AnM or PRonst—Tre Wasiincton Twixs—Wonpexs rx Natura History, Scrence axb Ant. Leerurss Daicy, Open from 8 A.M, tll UP. M. SUNDAY (THIS) EVENING—Gaanp Vocat ann Instrv- Mental CoNcxut ar Sruinway Hatt, Fourteenth street and Fourth avenue. New Bihan ‘Sunda: Advertisers will please bear in mind that in order to have their advertisements properly classi- fied they should be sent in before half-past eight o'clock in the evening. THB NEWS. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day evening, March 30, Holtand is likely to sell her portion of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to France. Ex-Governor Eyre was discharged from arrest by the magistrates, Captain. Hopkins, United States Navy, of the Canandaigua, pro- ceeded from Civita’ Vecchia to Rome and delivered President Johnson’s letter to the Pope. ‘Consols closed at 911; for money in London. United ‘States five-twonties were at 75'¢ in London, 78% in Frankfort and 845, in Paris. ‘The Liverpool cotton market was very dull in the afternoon, Prices declined one-eighth of a penny for middling uplands from the opening. Breadstuffs gene- tally unchanged. Onur special European correspondence and newspaper tail reports in detail of our cable despatches to the 17th of March, published to-day, embrace a historical résumé of the proceedings of the North German Parliament from the day of the organization of the assembiage. A comprehensive critical review of dramatic and mu- sical affairs ip London appears in our columas. Our special fashions correspondent in Paris furnishes two interesting letters describing the new and prevailing colors of fashionable dress materials, with the latest Myle of cut and trimming of ladies’ costume for house nd outdoor wear. The dresses, jewelry and other adornments of the person seen at tho grand fancy balls recently given in the French metropolis, as well as a few dresses made up for the Paris Exposition, with the new- est hats and other novelties, are also eet forth. CONGRESS. in the Senate yesterday the House bill authorizing the eppolutinent of watchmen by the Sergeant-at-Arms of both houses was passed. Resolutions calliug upon the Secretary of the Luterior for the tast report of the direc- tora of the Union Pacitic railroad; appointing a joint committee to accompany the remains of the late Senator Riddle to his home; calling upon the Secretary of War for information as to the amount of money paid to the Baitimore and Ohio, Northern Cagitral aud Pennsylvania Central railroads by the Government, and appointing « joint standing committee on Ordnance were adopted. ‘The executive sessions [iil was, on motion, suspended, 80 as to allow nominations for office not acted upon to remain over until next session. Tho bills granting the privileges of land -for the eetablishment of agricultural colleges to Nebraska, ‘and allowing the Chapiain of the House to draw his salary for the prevent year, were passed. Mr. Sumner gave notice that on the first Wednesday in July he would call up the Dill for universal suffrage throughont the United States. He had reason to believe, he said, that there would be a quorum present on that day. The Senate then went into executive session, and on reopen- ing the doors, was declared adjourned until the first Wednesday in July. In the House a memortai from the municipal govern- ment of Baltimore, praying for a republican form of governmont for Maryland, was referred to the Judiciary Committee. A resolusion thanking General Shendan for removing disloyal officials in New Orleans was ob- jected to by Mr. Wood, of New York, and was therefore not received. The Judiciary Commit- toc was authorized to continue in session during the recess, The business on the Speaker's table was then disposed of, Bilis end resolutions au- thorizing traders to remain at certain mililary posts; amendatory of the Colorado Organic act; appropriating $20,000 to grade the public walks in Washtogton and $5,000 for the Soldiers’ and Sallors’ Home in the District, }nd extending to Nebraska the privileges of the Agricul- Jural College bill, were nassed, The Senate jotut resolu- Jion In relation to the remove! of Indian tribes was laid Du the table, The bili to confirm certain sales made by Yhe direct tax commissioners in South Carolina, and retin. tive to the transporiation of troops by the Isthmus routes: to the Pacific States, were referred to appropriate com- mittecs, Several privare bills were acted upon, and at twelve o'clock the ker declared the House ad- Journed until the first Wednesday in dety THE LEGISLATURE. The Senate was not in session yesterday. In the Assembly a bill authorizing the construction of {railroad from the Erie canal at Syracuse to the stone quarry on the Indian reservation was introduced. The Assembly then wont into Committee of the Whole on the Annual Supply bill, and soon afterwards adjourned until Monday evening, THE CITY. The report of @ projected match between Heenan fand Coburn grow out of an altercation between the partiesand several others ata gambling saloon on Broad- way recently, which might have resulted sorioasly but for a report thatthe police were coming, There iv, how- ever, considerable truth im the tumor, and it iy highly Probable that a match for $10,000 between the iwo will oon be made up. Another Tonants’ Rights mass meeting of the rent. Payers of the Twenty-second ward was held in Eighth avenue on Friday evening. Addresses were deliverod, forme organization business transacted ant a collection taken ap. A nbsterions affvir, involving @ supposed murder and the disappearance of a prominent physician, is attracting tho attention of the Fifteenth precinct police, On Friday night the physician, who is an attaché of tho Board of Health, reported at the station house that » woman whom be had jnst seen had met her death through violent Meens, and that three men, whose actions were suapi- cions, wore then at the place designated. He then de- Parted, and the police visited the spot he had mentioned, but no corpse or men were to be found, and the doctor Limaeif has not been seen since. A fail acoguai of the Erie stock pool onerai ona. which — i —————————— "ene NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1867.-TRIPLE SHEET. reaulted in the arrest of Daniel Drew, holding him to bail im $250,000, and of Fisk & Belden, brokers, who are held in $50,000 each, will be found 1m our columns this morning, together with the affidavits upon which Leonard Huyck and Joseph B, Stewart were arrested on, Friday afternoon, aud are now confined in Ludlow atrect jail in default of $200,000 cach, Huyck aod Stowart were arrested on a charge of Sdnapiracy to de- fraud the United States government. The art of defrauding is being rapidly brought to per- fection in this city, Sevem pay rolls of employds in the Custom House were recently abstracted by some one connected with that establishmant, and, being altered to suit the present month, were presented one after anothor to the auditor and cashed. The swindler is supposed to be a German messenger employed in the building. The Police are investigating the matter. Threeof the Brookiya Fire Commissioners were ar- rested yesterday charged with sounding alarms of fire when no fire existed, They waived an examination ‘and wore released on their own recognizances to await the action of the Grand Jury. Fifteen steamora left New York yesterday for foreign OF coastwise ports, Dr. Thiers, who has recently been before the courts on suspicion of being connected with the abortion case Of Mrs, Noble, who diod from the effects of an operation ‘upon der, is farthor involved on similar charges, on she affidavit of Miss Mary Jones, whose child was stillborn on Friday, it is alleged, through the operation of the doctor. A jury rendered a verdict to thateffect, and the accused was committed for trial, Morris Ephraim was found guilty of the murder of Jobn Fitzpatrick by a coroner's jury in Williamsburg yesterday. Several important cases respecting the power of the State to tax United States cortificates of indebtedness and legal tender notes were argued before the Court of Appeals yesterday and submitted. An important extradition case came up yesterday in the United States Commissioner's Court, before Com- missioner White, the accused being one Philip Henrich, & Prussian, who is charged with having, in the years 1864 and 1865, while employed as secretary of the Rhenish Railway of Cologne, committed forgeries to the amount of about $8,000, The examination was set down for Tuesday next. ‘Tho stock market was steady yesterday. Gold closod at 133%. ‘The markets yesterday were generally quiet, and thore wore (ow essential changes either in foreign or domestic Merchandise. Cotton closed heavy under adverse cabio news, Breadstuffy were quiet but firm. Corn was activo at full prices. Provisions were steady, except lard, which was heavy. Coffoe was firm for all descriptions. Naval stores generally wore steady, with a moderate de- mand. Petroleum atill continued dull, though prices were not essentially altered. MISCELLANEOUS. An important treaty was concluded at the State De- partment in Washington yesterday by which Russian America is conveyed to the United States for the sum of $7,000,000, Our Vera Cruz (Mexico) correspondence is dated March 15, The fina! evacuation of the Fronch was concluded on the 13th instant by the departure of Marshal Bazaine on the Souverain and the embarkation of the Egyjsians who had remained to the last a3 a-ear guard, In all three thousand and sixteen men of the corps that camo for the purpose of intervention in the affairs of Mexico have departed, more than that aumber probably remain- ing under ite soil, French flags about the city were lowered and replaced with the embiom of Mexico, the Custom House flag being among tho first, A largo quantity of war material was sold to the imperialists by the French previous to their departure. The city was in a state of siege. Martial law has been declared and the gates wero closed. It 1s feared that the troops inside the city will pronounce for Juarez as soon as the liborals appear io front of the walls, Ail communication with the interior is cut off, and nothing but news of a doubtful character has been obtained from the capital. It was rumored that Maxi- milian had agreed to abdicate if Juarez would consent to abide by a decision of tho people for or against an empire, but the ramor was not confirmed. The young Prince Yturbide, who arrived some time ago, had been taken in charge by his father, Don Angel de Yturbide, and was en roule for New York. Our Havana letter is dated March 23, A revolutionary proclamation had been received from Spain by many prominent persons calling all classes to arms for the overthrow of Quoen Isabella and the establishment of a republican form of government on the peninsula. The smallpox has disappeared from Matanzas, sterling ox- change fell two and three per centon the 224, aud in the afternoon of the same day rose to soven and even eight per cont promium. Another revolution in Hay is roported, the revolu- tionists being headed by Prospero Ete and his son. The Elies were killed and tranquillity ensued. Another ac- count, witbout date, says that Geffeard had been de- feated and had fled to Jamaica, The Japanese Commissioners and suite sailed from San Francisco yosterday for New York. General Beauregard has writton a letter to a New Or- leans paper recommending the submission ef the South to the requirements of Congress, as a fight would be un- available, He aiso urges that means be taken to secure the negro vote and thereby beat the radicals with thoir own weapons. Tho steamship Francis Wright, which sailed from New York yesterday for Key Weat in the service of the Inter- national Ocean Telegraph Company, carried a corps of operators, linesmen and laborers, besides horses, wagous, forage and rations, to begin tho operation of Jayinga cable from Key West to Havana. The company is under the management of General Kaldy Smith. A large number of whiskey barrels, ships’ boats filled with water, broken boxes of oranges and ships’ planks wore disoovered by the steamer Hendrik Hudson, on her last trip from Havana to Philadelphia, of Cape Henry. Itis supposed that an unknown vessel has been wrecked. The supply steamer Newbern, which arrived atthe Brooklyn Navy Yardon Thursday, report having seen similar signs of a disaster, hh" eeeneait Sioedoabeelia aver Avani America to the United States. The announcement to-day of the proposed cession by Russia of all her possessions in North America to the United States comes unexpectedly, and is of great’ importance, both in a commercial and political po‘vt of view. Although « price is set upon the ter- ritory thus surrendered, it is in fact merely nominal, the value of the fisheries and the fur trade alone to our enterprising people being vastly in excess of the sum agreed upon as the purchase money. The treaty is an evidence of the close and friendly relations existing be- tween the two great Powers, and evinces the concurrence of the Russian government in the policy which denies to European monarchies the right to build up kingdoms and dominions on the American continent. With Rassian America in onr possession it will need but the annexation or absorp- tion of British Columbia and Vancouver's Island to give us the whole of the Pacific coast north of Mexico as our own; and in one way or another this result is certain to be secomplished. We cannot consent that our territory on the Pacific shall be broken between Washington ‘Terri- tory and Russian America, when the latter is fairly in our possession. It will be well for England if she is discreet enough to profit by the example of Russia, and to withdraw Grace- fully from a continent where her institutions are out of place and where her intrigaes can only bring trouble upon her colonics and hamiliation to her government at home, The acquisition of the new territory is. of especial importance at the present time, when the trade of the United States with China and Japan is being so satisfactorily developed. Adjournment of Congrese—Business Prospects. The business of the country has been » g00d deal paralyzed since Congress has been in secsion. The political agitation with regard to the South that has been kept alive, the many wild and radical propositions and schemes that have been introduced, leaving the minds of the people in a state of uncertainty as to the future, and the reckless legislation in voting away the public money and increasing our burdens, have had the effect of pare ors ordinary business operations and en! People have been alraid to do shything. With an abundance of money capitalists have preferred to lock it up or to use it only for temporary and speculative purposes. The ac- tion of the Thirty-ainth Congress during its last session was bad enough in this respect, but the few weeks’ session of the new Con- gress has been still more disastrous. The country wanted repose, yet the restless politi- cians at Washington seemed determined to keep it disturbed. Though this is but a rump Congress—for several of the loyal States are not represented—these Congressional agitators have been tinkering at the tariff, the new bankrupt law and many other laws and ques- tions which ought to have been let alone—all of which, as we said, bave had a seriously de- pressing effect upon business and enterprise. Now, however, there is a prospect of some repose for the public mind and for the revival of business, Congress adjourned yesterday. This adjournment is called a receas till the first Wednesday in July; but the resolution says that unless there be a quorum of each House present on that day the session shall be adjourned without day—that is, tilf December. We do not for a moment suppose that there will be ® quorum assembled in the dog days of July, or that there is any intention of moet- ing again at that time, unless something very extraordinary occurs in the meantime. The fact is, the radicals have made such a fuss about impeachment of the President, with- out being able to maké out a case, that they wanted to save themselves from ridicule by pre- tending that there might be a necessity to re- assemble in July, while at the same time they have no idea of reassembling. We can forgive this harmless political dodge in our joy at getting rid of a Congress which has kept the country disturbed and business paralyzed. We have nearly nine months—that is, assuming according to our belief that Congress will not moet again in July—for the development of business and the resources of the country. We may hope that inthe meantime the Southern States will be reconstructed and ready to have their representatives admitted to Congress, thus closing up our political troubles, and that members may come back in December better instrueted on the necessities of our financial and industrial situation, so as to give us repose and to put the republic on a fresh career of prosperity. The impeachment dicdiea most be regarded as virtually settled; for the investigating com- mittee has failed to find sufficiettt evidence for & case, and the President shows no disposition to obstruct the laws of Congress or to evade his duty in carrying them out. The talk about holding this over his head as a rod is shaken ata child has become really puerile and con- temptible, and is disgraceful to the legislative body of a great country. If there were good grounds for impeachment, let him be impeached by all means, but as there appears not to be, let the subject be dropped. The reputation of Congress and the country, common sense and decency demand that the subject shall be dis- posed of one way or the other. In the adjourn- ment of Congress we think and hope we see the end of this agitating question. Then, as to our business and financial pros- pects, we have reason to be hopeful. Nine months of quiet, with the flattering prospect of efrly reconstruction, will unlock a vast amount of accumulated capital which has been lying idle. Every branch of trade and commerce will feel the revivifying effect. Capitalists will not fear to invest their money. The country must bound forward in its career of prosperity, like a strong man from whose shoulders a depressing load has been removed. With such prospects and with the consequent demand for a large circulating medium we may reasonably expect a decline in gold. Without even any contraction of the currency this might be expected; but when we consider that the Treasury Department is wathorized to contract, and will contract, probably, at the rate of four millions » month, we may expect the premium on gold to fall to twenty-five or lower by next December. Indeed, if Mr. Me- Culloch should manage his gold reserves right, and some of the great business instiiutions of the country, like the New York Central Rail- road, should adopt the specie basis, with a proper and convenient reduction of rates, we might make greater progress towards specie payments in general, ‘The varions measures we have recommended from time to time to bring about this object, such ag a greater regard to economy in the legislation of Congress and in the adminfatra- tion of government, the hushanding of our rerources and applying them to the reduction of the national debt, the saving of the twenty millions a year now given to the national banks in profits on their circulation, and in consolidating the debt, making it uniform and reducing the interest—these must be de- ferred for the present. Dnring the nine months’ recess of Congress the people will become more instructed about these important measures. Correct views on them were moking great progress in Congress, and we hope 1em- bers will become sufficiently enlightened by the next session to place the nationa} finances on a safe and healthy foundation. In the mean- time the immediate future is encouraging. The adjournment of Congress will allay agita- tion and give quict, and business conse- quently must revive. The President’s Private Bank Account, Those who bad reasonable fault to find with President Johnson’s courses and who would not have been indisposed to see him impeached, are becoming disgusted at the lengths to which the radicals are carrying their hostility to him. The investigation of his banking account is one of those petty pieces of malice which is calculated to throw discredit upon the whole of the proceedings against him. As well might his wosherwoman’s bill, his baker’s bill or his tailor’s bill, if he has one, be subjected to serutiny, We can only account for such follies on the ground that our Congressional actors, having played out the reconstruction drama, are now disposed to wind up with a broed farce. The Closing Scones of the Empire in Mexico. ‘The closing scénes of the imperial drama in Mexico are about to be witnessed. According to our Vera Cruz letter, which we publish to-day, the imperialists hold the Castle of San Juan d’Ulloa and the liberals are investing the city. We are daily expecting additional de- tails of the situation from correspondents of the Henatp who are‘ now with Juarez, on the one hand, and with Maximilian, on the other, pr acon Fgh our dorrespéndents will both ‘ast Sine paint ie long the same gloomy picture of imperial defeat. Our last despatches left Maximilian and his “grand army” of eight or nine thousand men in a tight place. Hemmed in at Querétaro by General Escobedo and his fourteen thousand liberals, Maximilian is reduced to a terrible alternative. With his communications and supplies cut off, either he must be starved into surrender or, if he ventures to encounter the superior force of Escobedo in the open field, he must try to cut his way through to the sea at the risk of his life. Even if Juarez were more inclined to treat with the Emperor himself than with Mar- quez, Miramon and the other Mexican chiefs (whom he designates traitors) on the imperial aide, yet the Mexicans, who might intercept the Emperor in his flight to the sea, are accus- tomed to summary processes for disposing of their foes in times of civil war. It is by no means impossible that the violent death of Maximilian, the pride of the House of Haps- burg, may be the tragic end of the empire in Mexico, Should this prove to be the case it would put the climax to a series of humilia- tions which the house has bad to endure, and would seriously affect its future relations with the Napoleonic dynasty. First Session of the Fortieth Congress. This session, which commenced on the 4th of March and ended on the 30th, was a short ses- sion of twenty-six days, The only act of any consequence which it has left behind it on the statute book is the “Act supplementary to the act for the more efficient government of the rebel States,” providing the necessary machin- ery and details for carrying the general law of March 2 into effect. The main object of this late session was to head off President Johnson from the advantages he otherwise would have had in taking his own course upon Southern reconstruction during the long recess of nine months to December next. Another object was the President’s impeachment, which in the outset it was supposed would come up among the first measures of the late session, but which still hangs fire. The two houses before adjourning adopted a resolution to reassemble on the first Wednes- day in July, and then, unless ‘a quorum be present in both houses, to adjourn over to the regular first Monday in December. _ Meantime the House Judiciary Committee will continue its impeachment investigation, and will proba- bly be ready to make-a report one way or the other to: the ‘July-meeting,-and their report, against or in favor of the President, we pre- sume, will very materially depend upon his execution, in the interval, of these reconstruc: tion laws of Congress. We expect, from what we have already seen, that these laws will be so “faithfully executed” and that Southern reconstruction and the genoral affairs of the country will go on so smoothly that the two houses will meet in July only to adjourn over to December. Tho Proposed International Rowing Regatta. An effort is being made to dampen the ardor of some of our college students and graduates who take an interest and feel a pride in plying the oar. It is proposed on the part of these young men to have this country repre- sented in the University regatta on the river Seine at the Paris Exhibition, and they claim that with proper training they can com- pete, with at least an ordinary prospect of success, with the famous crews of Oxford and Cambrifige, and if they are allowed to enter the races and row their boats in the same mannet as they do in this country we shall ¢ntertain no fears in regard t6 the result. The hoats of England and France invariably carry . coxswain, which our oarsmen contend is an unnecessary ap- pendag> and a dead weight of seldom less than onp hundre pounds. Our amateurs have skilled jhemselves to such a degree in guiding their own boat as to render quite unnecessary the sertices of a coxswain, and in this respect they wld bave a large advantage over the Europedn oarsmen. The cjntest in which Hamill, of Pittsburg, was enfaged on the Thames and Tyne is pointedito as an evidence that our young men are notias proficient at the oar as our trans- atlantic cousins, and that they have not yet reached the standard of the English watermen. We do jot regard this as reasonable argument. To use the mildest language of some of Mr. friends, when speaking of that match,here is, they say, a mystery about it which hey cannot understand, and which ren- dered the result quite unsatisfactory ; and the timie which was made in the race gives color to their supicions, We are decidedly in favor of our college amatevts trying their skill and muscle with the rowen of the English and French universi- ties, and re hope that all proper encourage- ment will be extended to them. They do not dreds ofjthousands of dollars, but they an- nounce ves as willing to devote the necessarytime to training, and only ask the modest of about cight thousand dollars to defray expenses. Let them have it. A ‘Jubile for Whiskey Distillers and Their internal Revenue Friends. Congr@s has adjourned without taking any steps to fat a stop to the enormous internal re- whiskey frauds by which millions of dollars have been taken from tates Treasury. The commitice ap- pointed b investigate these wholesale rob- beries ant corruptions have been as mild as sucking dees and as silent as mice. They have made no éaclosures, but have contented them- selves wit) listening to the thunders of other committe charged with the important duty of ferretix ont the facts in connection with forty confe worth of candy jobs. Now let the whiskey Mstillers and their friends and part- ners in fe Internal Revenue Department go ahead make all the money they can be- fore the joxt meeting of Congress. It is their jubilee, pt them make the most of it. constrnction, "Tho New Post Ofice Site. Now that the idea of building up an addi- tional and ruinous obstruction to all trade and travel in the lower part of Broadway by placing the new Post Office at the south end of the City Hall Park is virtually abandoned, the people have become convinced that the best location for the new Post Office building is the old Five Points. A large amount of valuable space and idle or wom tad Lisa pA te te Sry hort of the business portion of the city. The general government should at once purchase sufficient land in the neighborhood of the House of In- dustry to build a fine square, with the Post Office in the centre, and handsome stores, wholesale and retail, on the four sides. The Post Office should be so constructed as to con- tain an inner courtyard, into which the mail carts could be driven to load and unload, leaving the outside streets unobstructed. If this great improvement should be made the whole adjacent property would be rapidly built up with first class business buildings ; broad streets and avenues would be opened through to the City Hall Park and up town to Fourteenth street, and railroads would be laid along them, to the Post Office, to the relief of Broadway and other thoroughfares. The rise that would be certain to take place in the value of the whole property in that now neglected portion of the city would be large enough to repay the general government for all its outlay in the purchase of the ground and the erection of the buildings. The Post Office Department should set about this busi- ness without delay and conclude a bargain that will be at once ® great benefit to ¢ the city and & source of actual profit to the general government, Clty Railroad Encronchments. Our city railroads have boen allowed to “run riot” so long with impunity that the cor- porations seem to consider the streets as their own property, to tear up, blockade or obstruct as they see fit, They are now using the public roads at different points up town and down town as their termini as if they had a clear title to them and as if the citizens had no right or interest in them whatever. They erect houses for their starters, lay down switches and turn- outs enough to render the streets impassable, and stop their cars there, ten or twelve at a time, so as to entirely put a stop to all other business. This is the case in Barclay, Vesey and Ann streets, Park row and Broadway, down town, and at several spots up town. The nuisance and trespass ought to be stopped at once by the proper city authorities or the police, and the rich railroad corporations ought.to be compelled to purchase property at their termini and build sufficient depots. They have no right. whatsoever to blockade the streets and deprive the public of their use. Unless some steps are taken forthwith by the authorities to prevent-s continuance of an out- rage that has been too long put up with patiently by the people, an injunction wilt ‘be applied for in the courts and the matter brought to. test in that way. But citizens and taxpayers should not be thus driven to the necessity of detending their own rights when they have an extravagantly paid police force and a host of city officials whose duty it is to protect them. Tho Bankrupt Bill. Since the passage of the Bankrupt bill vigorous efforts have been made in Congress by certain parties who are deeply interested politically in the preservation of the banking system which will remain in lasting connection with the name of Mr. Chase, now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, to postpone the date at which the bill should come into force. As the Bankrupt bill will have the certain effect of robbing the national banks of the:r absurd and much abused privileges, and of placing the directors on the same footing financially as private individuals, itis not diffcnlt to under- siand tho meaning of this conduct. We are glad, however, to see that the efforts of these schemers have been defeated, and that the bill will go into practical operation on the 1st of June next. Big Whiskey Job in Nicaragua. Certain members of the Nicaraguan govern. ment being “ on the make,” like certain Alder- men we know, have maie a nice arrangement by which a certain Helass Goussin has acquired the exclusive right for the space of flve years, dating from the Ist of June, 1867, of importing, duty free, and of selling foreign strong liquors throughout the said: republic. Nor is this all. On the above mentioned day—June 1—all foreign liquors that chance to be in the hands of others within the limits of the republic must be yielded up to the said Helass Gousgin at a cost determined by expert arbitrators. This truly is a pretty job. It beate New York all to pieces. Have any of our New York or Brooklyn Aldermen or distillers a finger in the pie? The requisiig liquor certainly is not wanting; nor do we think it would be at all hurtful, either to their own pockets or to the stomachs of our citizens if the aforesaid Aldermanic distillers should make an arrange- ment with the said Helass Goussin io supply bim with the requisite cordial. * A Little Phonetle Job. Mr. Conness, of ~.1ifornia, introduced into the United States Senate the othor day a bill, which was referred to the Joini Committee on the Library, providing that George P. Marsh, of Vermont; Richard Chevenix Trench, of England, and Charles A. Dena, of New York, be appointed a board of commissioners on the phonetic system, to report upon the prac- ticability of substituting the phonetic for the Latin alphabet, for common use in the United States and Great Britain, the commissioners to receive five thonsand dollars each on making their report. Practically considered, the com- mission might as well be empowered to report upon the expedioncy of introducing the Potta- wottomie or Feejee language, or the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, as this phonetic sys tem. There is nothing practical in this pro- ject except the item of five thousand dollars compensation to each commissioner; bat when these phonetic gentlenen wet their money it will be for something elke than phonetics. .Phonography, photography or even lithography, would siand a better chance in Congress than phonetics. A Fam Frr—In the President’s message an- nouncing his approval of the bill appropriating the specific sum of five hundred thonsand dol- lara for the expenses of the Southern fe. ‘The Beard ef Health, the Logisiature we Our City Markets. The Senate Health bill has been salient upon by s committee of the Assembly, with an amendment forbidding the injury or destruction of the public markets or any interference with them beyond what is necessary to regulate their sanitary condition. We cannot conceive why such an amendment sbould be made unleas the Assembly had in contemplation the action of the Constitutional Convention, which will probably adopting broader measures poe “naan at of By pas government and the kets among them. Of all the evils under the city suffers, and all the nuisances of w! it has @ just right to complain, our public mar- kets stand foremost. As far as convenience te the large population of the metropolis is con- cerned, as well as in a sanitary point of view, they require s radical reformation. There can be no doubt of the fact that the markets of New York, in cleanliness, ornament and facilities for comfort area quarter of a century bebind the provincial cities. Indeed they would be peremptorily removed as nui- sances in any other city in the Union. Twenty years ago the public markets of Philadelphia were superior to the present markets of New York. In that city, as well as in ar gay Cincinnati and other citieg of the Soutt Wost, to-day the markets are ee nt ness and accommodation which it is ap pleasure to visit, while no person respectably dressed, having a coat to spoil or a skirt to defile and disfigure, can venture into our city markets. It is evident, then, that instead of restricting the powers of the Boara 47 Health they onght to be extended to the removal of nuisances. Nothing but the most absolute authority can accomplish this object. Before the time of the present Napoleon the markets of Paris afforded a fair parallel to those of New York. They were looated in the dirtiest districts of the capital, difficult of approach, through narrow streets, and, as a necessity, in the worst degree filtby in their condition. It was only by the energy, almost despotic'action of the Emperor, that a reform was happily brought about; so that the markets of Paris are now about the best in the world. We conceive that one of the most important subjects that may eome under the considera- tion of the State Constitutional Convention with regard to the better government of this city is the matter of public markets, and we hope that they will not overlook it in their qettperalons se he pry EAS, Protection ef Life ia Theatres. There is a bill now before the Legislature which we hope to see passed with all possible expedition. It's that g theatres and other buildings in -which large assemblages take place, ‘80 as to provide proper means of egress in case of fire. Since the burning of the Richmond theatre, when several hundred peo- ple, including the Governor of the Stete and his family, lost their lives, there has fortunately been no accident of s simitarly “disastrous character. This, however,’ has been owing rather: to the mereifal interposition’ of Provi- dence than to the careful management of our theatrical establishments. A large number of them have been since destroyed, and in'some Instances the audiences have had narrow escapes, If a fire were to take place during a per. formance at any of our New York theatres the probabilities are that there would be as many if not a greater number of victims than in the Richmond catastrophe. At none of them, with a single exception, are the means of egreas sufficient to empty a house rapidly in case of accident. Then the difficulty caused by a pauic would be certain to be aggravated by the reprehensible practice which prevails of filling up the passages with camp stools on crowded nights. We have over and over protested against such practices; but the man- agers have always turned a deaf ear to our remonstrances, Now that they are deomed a fit subject formlegislation we trast that there will be no half-way measures in regard to them. Nothing should be left to the choice of the manager or architect in the construction of theatrical establishments which involves the security of the public. To every thestre there should be main passages of ten or twelve feet in width, and those of the parquot should be at least six. The placing of temporary seats in them should be visited with a heavy penalty, and on a repetition of the offence with a closing up of the house. No theatre or music hall should have less than three large doors in front, a8 many at the rear, and, where practicable, means of egress also at the sides. Another essential precaution is a plentiful provision of water in tanks, by which both stage and audi- torium can be instantly flooded if necessary. One of the principal causes of the rapid de- struction of theatres by fire is the difficulty ot shutting off draughts. A remedy for this has been found in a Scotch invention now in opera- tion in an Edinburg theatre. It is an iron cur- tain separating the auditorium from the stage, which, on the occurrence of fire, can be in- stantly lowered, thus confining the flames to the portion of the building where they may have broken out. We should be glad to see a precaution of this kind enforced here. To the event of a fire occurring during a performance the shutting out the conflagra- tion from the sudionce by such a barrier Would (ranquillize their fears and prevent the occurrence of a panic. It would be to the interest of proprictors and managers of theatres to have these safeguards forced upon them ; for they would then find no difficulty in getting their buildings and wardrobes insured. We submit these suggestions to the committee having charge of the bill now before the Legis- lature. We have not seen a copy of it, and therefore do not know how far its provisions concur with them. On one point we hope there will be a common agreement, and that is as to the necessity of the maintenance of a special day und night police for theatre duty, the cost to be paid by the managers. { Rann nenannie_ bine Tur Erout Hours Syste.—Mr. Banks suc- ceeded in running throngh the House the other day a bill making eight hours a legol day’s work in all government establishments. Mr. Chanler, however, 4s we think, hit this nail on the head, ia his remark that it is@ farce to talk of eight hours as @ day’s work, unless you can fix the price. How is that to be done t Mr. Banks’ bill does not explain. Set Bacx—The Hon. Ben Butler, Farnsworth, Ashley, and all the implacable impoac hers, “old Thad Stevens” among the rest, on the ‘Limpeachment auestiow